Piggly Wiggly also is selling seven Charleston-area stores to Harris Teeter, which is in the process of being sold to Cincinnati-based Kroger Co.

The sales prices were not disclosed.

Piggly Wiggly will be left with 26 corporate-owned supermarkets in South Carolina and one in Georgia. It will continue to service and distribute inventory to 31 independently owned stores in the franchise, mostly in the Palmetto State, officials said.